Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Full reference: L. R. M. Cocks, C. H. C. Brunton, A. J. Rowell and I. C. Rust. 1970. The first Lower Palaeozoic fauna proved from South Africa. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 125:583-603
Belongs to Eostropheodonta according to L. R. M. Cocks et al. 1970
Sister taxa: Eostropheodonta augusta, Eostropheodonta bublitschenki, Eostropheodonta chilcaensis, Eostropheodonta conradii, Eostropheodonta delicata, Eostropheodonta hirnantensis, Eostropheodonta luna, Eostropheodonta mullochensis, Eostropheodonta multiradiata, Eostropheodonta parvicostellata, Eostropheodonta portfieldensis, Eostropheodonta schmalenseei, Eostropheodonta squamosa, Eostropheodonta tafilaltensis, Eostropheodonta ultrix, Stropheodonta (Eostropheodonta) williamsi, Aphanomena planoconvexa, Aphanomena schmalenseei, Aphanomena urbicola
Type specimen: Its type locality is Shelly Fauna of the Disa Member, Cedarberg Formation, Western Cape Province, which is in a Hirnantian/Rhuddanian marine sandstone/mudstone in the Cedarburg Formation of South Africa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Shelly Fauna of the Disa Member, Cedarberg Formation, Western Cape Province
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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